The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner |
Autore | Brückner Martin <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 911/.73 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8078-3897-7
1-4696-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness -- The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America -- The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America -- Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic -- Geography textbooks and reading national character -- Novel geographies of the republic -- Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark -- Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460759203321 |
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The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner |
Autore | Brückner Martin <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 911/.73 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
ISBN |
979-88-908780-3-8
0-8078-3897-7 1-4696-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness -- The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America -- The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America -- Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic -- Geography textbooks and reading national character -- Novel geographies of the republic -- Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark -- Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787351903321 |
Brückner Martin <1963->
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 | ||
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The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner |
Autore | Brückner Martin <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 911/.73 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
ISBN |
979-88-908780-3-8
0-8078-3897-7 1-4696-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness -- The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America -- The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America -- Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic -- Geography textbooks and reading national character -- Novel geographies of the republic -- Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark -- Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825401703321 |
Brückner Martin <1963->
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 | ||
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The nation's nature [[electronic resource] ] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / / James D. Drake |
Autore | Drake James David <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception - United States - History - 18th century
Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49057-8
9786613585806 0-8139-3139-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457490503321 |
Drake James David <1968->
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
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The nation's nature [[electronic resource] ] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / / James D. Drake |
Autore | Drake James David <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception - United States - History - 18th century
Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-280-49057-8
9786613585806 0-8139-3139-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779051203321 |
Drake James David <1968->
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
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The nation's nature [[electronic resource] ] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / / James D. Drake |
Autore | Drake James David <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception - United States - History - 18th century
Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-280-49057-8
9786613585806 0-8139-3139-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826956803321 |
Drake James David <1968->
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
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Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography / / Wilbur Zelinsky |
Autore | Zelinsky Wilbur <1921-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 304.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Cultural geography - United States National characteristics, American |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-181-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The argument -- E Pluribus unum? the mashing vs. the sorting of America -- Pondering the built landscape -- The theater of the unpredictable -- Territorial diversities in the cultural realm: yea and nay -- The regional factor -- Is the jury still out? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463870703321 |
Zelinsky Wilbur <1921->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 | ||
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Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography / / Wilbur Zelinsky |
Autore | Zelinsky Wilbur <1921-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 304.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Cultural geography - United States National characteristics, American |
ISBN | 1-61376-181-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The argument -- E Pluribus unum? the mashing vs. the sorting of America -- Pondering the built landscape -- The theater of the unpredictable -- Territorial diversities in the cultural realm: yea and nay -- The regional factor -- Is the jury still out? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788676603321 |
Zelinsky Wilbur <1921->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 | ||
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Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography / / Wilbur Zelinsky |
Autore | Zelinsky Wilbur <1921-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 304.20973 |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Cultural geography - United States National characteristics, American |
ISBN | 1-61376-181-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The argument -- E Pluribus unum? the mashing vs. the sorting of America -- Pondering the built landscape -- The theater of the unpredictable -- Territorial diversities in the cultural realm: yea and nay -- The regional factor -- Is the jury still out? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826875603321 |
Zelinsky Wilbur <1921->
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011 | ||
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Old wheelways : traces of bicycle history on the land / / Robert L. McCullough |
Autore | McCullough Robert <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 796.6/40973 |
Soggetto topico |
Bicycle touring - United States - History - 19th century
Bicycle trails - United States - History - 19th century Landscapes - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-262-33086-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Preface: Bicycle Landseeërs; A wheel; Wheeling Large; Imagining Place; Straightaway; Country Riding; Good Roads and Good Sidepaths; Sidepath; Park Privileges; Park Way; Wheelways; Afterword: Revival; Acknowledgments; Appendix: New York State Sidepaths; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; A Selected Bibliography of Cycling Sources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460952103321 |
McCullough Robert <1949->
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015 | ||
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